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I support your general thesis that in general the government snooping that is so controversial at the moment is a force for good that checks the power of criminals. Documented cases of abuse are rare. I have yet to meet anyone who is familiar with statecraft and diplomacy who was even mildly surprised by the "revelations' of Edward Snowden, this is just realpolitik. The problem is that for democracy to kept safe some things need to be kept secret from the people.
However you have gone a step or three too far in your conclusion that the discontinuity, i.e. the point when humans can longer understand technology, and therefore be able to control it, is still far in the future. The fact that we are having this discussion, and doing so in an elite forum incomprehensible to the general public shows that technology outstripped human comprehension some decades ago. Todays hackers are nostalgic for an earlier time. Most programmers are cutting and pasting code from libraries that they do not bother to read. Even when they do read it they don't understand the assembly language and machine code that it controls. Soon computers will be doing the coding without human intervention. Mathematical journals now publish proofs that no human can ever read. William Gibson's remark that "the future has already arrived, it is just unevenly distributed" is actually true.

There is no need of a virus in order to crash your car. You have only to let act these “automatic, smart, intelligent, genial, safety protectors” devices installed into the last generation of cars.
And the “car computer” which supervises every aspect of the operation of a mechanical (not virtual) car. One transistor over some tenth of millions broken, and there you have any at your leisure unpredictable consequence, such as having your engine suddenly switched off in the midst of a turn, or your car doors and your car windows blocked without any chance of escape.
Contemporary industry is now driven by marketing people, who are the disciplined watchmen of the interests of the abstract owners: the Stock Exchange. As a consequence, companies serves their owner, not their clients. The latest can be thrown into the ravine alongside the road without any problem.
Provided that – of course - the MSV, Maximize Shareholder Value is preserved.
So, the history and the knowledge of decades of honorable hard work into various disciplines as safety, intrinsic safety, aeronautics, avionics, space flight, and so on, is thrown into the garbage by the devotees of the returning Cargo Cult of the robotics and Artificial Intelligence (Do you need indeed some prosthesis, Sir? Artificial Arm? Artificial Intelligence?).
Now we have only to wait in the near future the slaughter made by the “self-driving” automatic, intelligent, smart, genial cars that these guys at Google and MIT are “developing” in order to catch a lot of money for their silly researches, and to develop some Stock Exchange favorable bubble, a very very ancient sophisticated art, dating back from the Tulip bubble in the XVII century.
Oh, how much useful novelties is plenty of our innovative age!